the future.
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
Mud sometimes gives the illusion of depth.
For a McLuhanish essay I wrote some time ago, see here. The point is that we all have habits of mind that make it extraordinarily difficult to see what's really going on. The goal of this blog is to identify those habits of mind as obstacles and to seek more effective habits suited to our real circumstances.
I'm not saying I'm particularly good at it, but only that's what I'm trying to do. But a working assumption that undergirds just about everything I write here is that the conventional wisdom is mud and has almost nothing to do with the way things are; it is only important to understand it as we must understand the nature of the spell that beguiles us if we are to find a way to break it.
I certainly don't know more than anyone else, but as we move forward, I see the task as the striving to be vigilant to discern signs of the burgeoning new, the things that cannot be seen in the rear-view mirror. Or another way of putting is that while it is impossible to avoid dealing with the mud in which we're all submerged, the more important task is the struggle to get our heads above the mud as best we can, even if only momentarily, to scan the surface to see what might be growing there.
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